Continue Your lovingkindness to those who know You, and Your justice to the upright in heart.
In pride the wicked hotly hunts the poor. Let them be caught in the plots they have planned.
Guarantee Your servant’s well-being. Do not let arrogant ones oppress me.
The arrogant have viciously ridiculed me, yet I did not turn away from Your Torah.
Though the proud smeared a lie on me, with all my heart I keep Your precepts.
The proud have dug pits for me— that is not in accord with Your Torah!
I have set Adonai always before me. Since He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.
My soul, wait in stillness, only for God— for from Him comes my expectation.
Then I will put it into the hand of your tormentors, who said to you, ‘Lie down, so we may walk over you.’ You have made your back like the ground and like a street for passersby.